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Description of problem:
When redhat-config-network is used to modify settings after the first install
(launched from KDE in user mode), it writes the files
/etc/hosts
/etc/resolv.conf
with owner root and permission 600. This causes DNS lookup for the user to fail
(other things may fail as well).
WORKAROUND: after using redhat-config-network, su to root,
and manually change the permissions to 644.
A very irritating bug (took long to figure out until I noticed
that DNS _did_ work for root).
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
How reproducible:
Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use redhat-config-network from user.
2.Modify the IP address, or something in the DNS entries, causing
redhat-config-network to re-write /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf
3.Try to ping a host whose IP address is not known to the machine.
Additional info: